Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famous quotes

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism,
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#United States #World #Force

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Believe #People #Wish

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Self Confidence #Identity #Culture

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Islamic #Mean

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#World #Today

Our nation is today a powerful nation.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Powerful #Today

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Aspect #Iranian

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #World #Revolution

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Pregnancy #Desire #Expansion

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Iran #People #Historical

Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Iraq #Ties

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Blow #Waiting #Enemy

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Way #Revolution #Missions

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Active

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Years #Culture

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#War #Destiny #Years

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Fire #Israel

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islam #World #Structure

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Rights #Iran

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Brave #Facts #Nuclear

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Appreciate #Approval #States

One can not impede scientific progress.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Progress #Can Not #Scientific Progress

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Moving #Islamic #World

We've never been anti-Semitic.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Anti Semitic

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Equations

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Issues #Government #Understanding

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Achievement #Energy #Nuclear

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Iran #Dear God

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #People #Identity

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Welfare #Security

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Nuclear #Argument #Council

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Tree #Storm #Rotten

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Jobs #Thinking #Views

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Children #Moon #Orbit

Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Today #Way #Reason

Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermines the foundations of our independence and national security . . . The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time . . . Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Beautiful #Art #Islamic

The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#War #Insane #United States

I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European governments, and of the US government. To the independent countries in the world, I would like to say: You should know that the influence of the Zionist network on your culture, your politics, and your economy is tantamount to a violation of your independence. They cling like ticks. The moment they gain influence, they never stop.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Believe #Independent

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #School #Insane

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Rights #People #Essentials

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Independent #Iran #Law

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Peaches #Ministers #Former

They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Oil #Giving #Pieces

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Israel #Years #West

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Years #Principles #Different

the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Iran #Nuclear #Use

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Jew #Humans

Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Strong #Government

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Iran #Nuclear #Unleashing

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Media #Insecurity #Climate

Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #War #Taken

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported? Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Latin #Government #Leader

Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Jesus #Cities

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Government #Hands #United States

Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Christian #War #Together

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Rights #Light #Order

Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems... Whether we like it or not, the world is gravitating towards faith in the Almighty and justice and the will of God will prevail over all things.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Fall #Two #Justice

Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#America #Goal #World

Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Views #Order #Government

Israel must be wiped off the map.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Israel #Maps

The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Israel #America

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Israel #Doubt

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Iran #America

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Issues #Israel #Community

We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Iraq #People

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Leader #Important #Topics

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Tree #Storm #Rotten

If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Fire #Generosity #Want

Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Israel #Atmosphere #Soil

Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Israel #Selfishness

Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Party #Thinking #Fake

Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Believe #Octopus #Iran

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Enemy #Thank God #Idiot

Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Rights #Achievement #Middle East

No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #War #Believe

We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Wise #Two #Needs

Hundreds of social networks and websites such as Facebook and Twitter are trying to weaken people's morale and decrease their participation in the elections.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Iran #People #Trying

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Israel #Hands #Middle East

If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Real #Order #Issues

Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#War #Believe #Iraq

The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Insane #World #Bacteria

Death to Israel! Death to Israel!
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Israel #Insane

Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [Israel] must be wiped off the map.... We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine.... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islamic #Israel #Issues

Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Religious #Hate #Islamic

Iran can recruit hundreds of suicide bombers a day. Suicide is an invincible weapon. Suicide bombers in this land showed us the way, and they enlighten our future.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Suicide #Iran #Land

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#World #Becoming #Continents

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Iran #Homosexual

I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Country #Insane #Doe